Radical imannence as expression of the meaning of life in Spinoza and Wittgenstein

• Grant number: 12/21947-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral
• Start date: August 01, 2013
• End date: March 31, 2016
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Philosophy - History of Philosophy
• Principal Investigator: Arley Ramos Moreno
• Grantee: Jose Fernando da Silva
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The project intends to indicate the presence of a close affinity between Ethics of Spinoza and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus of Wittgenstein. It takes it with the postulation of the presence of a radical immanence which coincides with the expression of the meaning of life. In other words, it postulates that among these works remains a close proximity. It is characterized by the logical impossibility of finding a meaning to life that goes beyond the actual effectiveness by existing. The project intends to demonstrate this thesis exploring the following topics: 1. the similarity of their conceptions of philosophy, in both texts outlined as a practice that dissipates shadows (of the language and images); 2. The immanentist role played by notions of god and logic that puts, in spinozist thought the internal relationship between the substance and its attributes and between the attributes and the modes finite and infinite, that constituting Natured Nature. In the wittgensteinian thought, it puts the subsistence of differents logical spaces in the world, something that engenders, through a projective relationship, a isomorphy between them, the thought and the language; 3. an indication of the proximity of their ethical proposals, projects that celebrate the activity in the present life as the agent that expands the ethical boundaries of reality, thereby building a happy and blissful life. (AU)